The Blessed Buddha once explained: On any occasion, Bhikkhus, when mind is excited and high, then it is timefor training the Tranquillity Link to Awakening, the Concentration Link to Awakening, and the Equanimity Link to Awakening. Why is it so? Because when the mind is excited and high, Bhikkhus, then it is easy to calm it down with exactly those mental states...Imagine, Bhikkhus, a man wants to extinguish a great fire. If he throws wet grass, wet cow-dung, wet timber into it, sprays it with water, and scatters soil over it, would he be able to extinguish that great bonfire? Yes, Venerable Sir.Even so here, Bhikkhus, on any occasion, when the mind is excited and high, then it is convenient to train & develop the Tranquillity Link to Awakening, the Concentration Link to Awakening, & the Equanimity Link to Awakening. Why is it so? Because when the mind is excited and high, Bhikkhus, then it is easy to calm it down & still it with the qualities of exactly those states!Awareness, however, Bhikkhus, I tell you, is always useful & good to train!

Venerable Bahiya once approached the Blessed Buddha and asked:Sir, Please teach me the Dhamma in brief, so that I can withdraw intoretreat and dwell secluded, keen, ardent, alert and determined.Well, Bahiya, purify the very starting point of all advantageous states. And what is the starting point of all advantageous states?

Morality that is well purified, and a view that is made straight #... Then, Bahiya, when your Morality is well purified and your view is straight, based upon Morality, established upon Morality, you should develop these Four Foundations of Awareness. What four? Here, Bahiya, live reflecting on:

1: The Body merely as a transient and compounded Form..2: Feelings just as vanishing Reactions to sense-contact..3: Mind only as a group of habitual and conditioned Moods..4: All Phenomena simply as discrete momentary Mental States..

Thereby removing any desire, jealousy, envy & discontent rooted in this world.. When, Bahiya, based upon Morality, established upon Morality, you develop these Four Foundations of Awareness in such a way, then both night and day, you will grow in all advantageous states, and not decline into any degradation! Then the Venerable Bahiya, delighted, enjoying and rejoicing in what the Blessed Buddha had explained, rose from his seat, and, after kneeling forthe Blessed One, keeping him on his right, he left. Then dwelling all alone, withdrawn, diligent, ardent, and resolute, the Venerable Bahiya, realizing it by direct experience, in this very life entered that incomparable goal of the Noble life for the sake of which clansmen rightly go forth from this household life into homelessness. He directly knew: Destroyed is rebirth, the Noble life is completed, done is what had to be done, there is no more coming into any state of being. Venerable Bahiya had become another one of the awakened Arahats!

The 4 great frames of Reference!

Comment #: Efficacy of Kamma!The Straight View is understanding that everyone is responsible for their own actions & that all beings experience the delayed resulting effects - good as bad - not only in this life, but in many future lives!

The Blessed Buddha once said:Truly, caused by craving for sense pleasure, conditioned by craving for simple sense pleasure, propelled by craving for sense pleasure, wholly induced by craving for sense pleasure, kings fight with kings, princes with princes, priests with priests, citizens with citizens and the mother quarrels with the son, the son with the mother, the father with the son, the son with the father; brother quarrels with brother, brother with sister, sister with brother, & friend brawl with friend! Thus, pushed into conflict, quarrelling, & fighting, they readily attack each other with fists and eapons, thereby suffering both pain & death! Furthermore, caused by craving for plain sense pleasure, conditioned by craving for simple sense pleasure, propelled by craving for sense pleasure, wholly induced by craving for sense pleasure, burglarsbreak into houses, rob, plunder, steal from friends, commit highway robbery, andseduce the wives of others. Then the rulers have such people caught and inflict upon them various forms of punishment. Thereby they meet death or deadly pain...Such is the misery of craving for sense pleasure, accumulation of pain & suffering in this present life, caused, initiated, prepared & entirely dependent upon this evil urge for sense pleasure! Finally: Beings engage in evil mental, verbal & bodily behaviour; as a consequence of that, at breakup of the body, right after death, they are whirled into the downfall, and re-arise in a state of misery, in an unhappy destination, in the abyss of one of the many inferno hells... Such also is the misery of craving for sense pleasure: Accumulation of suffering in the future life, entirely due to craving for lowpleasure, created by craving for pleasure, caused by craving for pleasure, utterly dependent on this malign sense pleasure craving. MN 13...

The Blessed Buddha once said:What, Ananda, is the experience of Ceasing? When a Bhikkhu retires to the forest, to the root of a tree, or an empty hut & thinks thus: This is Peace, this is sublime, namely, the stilling of all mental construction, the ending of all kammic formation, the evaporation of all fuel for becoming, the ceasing of all craving, the relinquishing of all by detachment, cessation, Nibbana Then this very reflection itself is the experience of Ceasing ...

Some Simple Comments:Ceasing means complete ending of & total absence of all greed, hate & ignorance!Cultivating reflection on ceasing reduces all desire for initiation, and origination..

Simile:Greed, lust, & desire fades away slowly like the colours of cloth hanging in the sun!

Even evaluation is characteristic of the Equanimity Link to Awakening. (Upekkha-Sambojjhanga). Preventing both deficiency & excess andsecuring impartiality is the function of Equanimity. Imperturbable ballance is the manifestation of the Equanimity Link to Awakening. Equanimity just looks on whenever new phenomena arises and ceases. This stable yet plastic patience purifies all the other advantageous mental states, which reach maximum, when joined with Equanimity...

Equanimity (Upekkha) is a moderating mental construction.Equanimity is also a mood of neither gladness nor sadness.Equanimity is also a feeling of neither pain nor pleasure.Equanimity is also the neutral ability to be indifferent.Equanimity is also the 4th infinitely divine dwelling.Equanimity is also a quite high form of happiness.Equanimity is also a refined mental purification.Equanimity is therefore a Link to Enlightenment...

There is Equanimity both regarding live beings and dead things.There is Equanimity both regarding all internal & external states.There is Equanimity both regarding all past, present and future.There is Equanimity both regarding all mentality & all materiality.

The Buddha once said: What mental fermentations (asava) should be overcome by development? If a Bhikkhu by alert & rational attentiondevelops the Equanimity Link to Awakening based on seclusion, based on disillusion, on ceasing, culminating in full renouncing relinquishment, then neither can mental fermentation, nor any fever, nor discontent ever arise in him. MN2 [i 11]

When mind is concentrated one can observe all closely in equanimity. The Equanimity Link to Awakening arises right there. He develops it, and for him repeatedly meditating it goes gradually to the completionof its development. MN118 [iii 85]

Dr. Pim van Lommel on the fact of a Consciousness Beyond Biological Brain Life... Like the bottle contains the beer, but DOES NOT produce the beer... Similarly: The brain contains consciousness, but the brain DOES NOT produce consciousness!

The Blessed Buddha once said:As a mother would risk even her own life to protect her only child, exactlyso let us cultivate immeasurable loving-kindness towards all living beings!

I am a friend of the footless,I am a friend of all bipeds,I am a friend of those with four feet,I am a friend of the many-footed!Anguttara Nikaya 4.67

Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle. No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…Suvanna-sama Jataka 540

May all creatures, all breathing things,all beings one and all, without exception,experience good fortune only.May they not fall into any harm.Anguttara Nikaya II, 72

With good will for the entire cosmos,cultivate a limitless heart & mind:Beaming above, below, & all around,unobstructed, without trace of hostility.Sutta Nipata I, 8

Train yourself in doing only goodthat lasts and brings great happiness.Cultivate generosity, a peaceful living, and a mentality of infinite friendliness.Ittivuttuka 16

Medin Poya day is the full-moon of March. This holy day celebratesthat the Buddha visits his parental home after his supreme Enlightenment, and ordains his son prince Rahula, & half brother Nanda. This day isalso called: The Sangha Day, since on this full-moon 1250 Arahats spontaneously met & assembled around the Buddha without any call.Buddha then spoke the famous Ovada Patimokkha core teaching!

On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines in a loud, calm & steady voice:

As long as this life lasts: I hereby take refuge in the Buddha. I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.I hereby take refuge in the Sangha. I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!

I accept to respect, keep & undertake these 5 training rules: I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Lying & Cheating.I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.As long as this life lasts: I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...

As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts... Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to this world! The journey towards Nibbana: The Deathless is hereby started!This is the Noble Way to Absolute Peace, to Complete Freedom, to UltimateHappiness, initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and fulfilled by training of Meditation...

Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha or observance day, where any lay Buddhist normally keeps also the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha, they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with name, date, town, & country to me or join here. A public list of this new quite rapidly growing global web Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!

Only friendliness can completely evaporate the poison of hate and anger!Its characteristic is promoting other being's welfare, its function is to do only good, and its manifestation is kindness, sympathy, and gentleness... The proximate cause of friendliness is seeing the good aspects of things!The proximate cause of understanding compassion is this very friendliness!

The Blessed Buddha said about friendliness (Metta):"Bhikkhus, whatever kinds of worldly merit there are, all are not worthone sixteenth part of the release of mind by universal friendliness;in shining, glowing and beaming radiance, this release of mind byuniversal friendliness far excels & surpasses them all..."

What are the 11 Advantages of cultivating such Universal Friendliness? The four Brahma Viharas; The four Divine States: The four Supreme States; The four Infinite States:

"Friends, eleven advantages are to be expected as effect from the release of mind into friendliness by the practice of Goodwill, by cultivating amity, by making much of it frequently, by making friendliness the vehicle, the tool, the basis, by insisting on it, by being well established in it as a sublime habit! What are these eleven advantages ? One falls asleep well! One wakes up Happy!One dreams no evil dreams!One is liked and loved by all human beings!One is liked and loved by all non-human beings too!One is guarded and protected by the divine devas!One cannot be harmed by fire, poison, or weapons!One easily attains the concentration of absorption!Ones appearance becomes serene, calm, and composed!One dies without confusion, bewilderment, or panic!One reappears after death on the Brahma level, if onehas penetrated to no higher level in this very life!

When the mind is released into friendliness by the practice of goodwill,by manifesting friendliness, by cultivating amity, by frequently making much of it, by making friendliness the vehicle, the tool, the basis, the medium, the foundation, by persisting in it, by insisting on it, by properly consolidating it, by thoroughly undertaking it, by making it a familiar supreme habit, by so being well established in it, these eleven blessings can be expected!"Anguttara Nikaya V 342

There, Oohh friends, the Bhikkhu with a mind full of friendly loving-kindness pervading first one direction, then a 2nd one, then a 3rd one then the 4th one, as below so above, across and all around, everywhere identifying himself with all sentient beings, he is encompassing the whole world with a mind of friendlyloving-kindness, with a wide mind, vast, refined, unbounded, cleared, exalted, pure and bright, free from all hate and ill will ...

There, Oh friends, the Bhikkhu with a mind full of understanding compassion pervading first the front, then the right side, then the back, then the left side, as below so above, across & all around, all over, far & wide; identifying himself with all sentient beings, he is perfusing the whole universe with a mind imbued with pity, with a spacious mind, a refined mind, infinite, purified, all luminous, freed from all anger and any trace of enmity ...

There, the Bhikkhu with a mind full of altruistic, sympathetic and mutual Joy pervading the North, then the East, then the South, then the West, as below so above, across & all around, universally, infinitely; identifying himself with all sentient beings, he is suffusing all galaxies with a mind elevated by genuine mutual and altruistic sympathetic joy, with an open mind, immeasurable, wide,limitless, pure & shining, free from all aversion and bitterness ...

There, Oohh friends, the Bhikkhu with a mind full of balanced equanimity ispervading first the frontal quadrant, then the right, then the rear & then the left quadrant, as below so above, across and all around, everywhere placing himself with all sentient beings, he is permeating the whole world with a mind satiated of stilled and balanced equanimity, calmed, with a mountain-like mind,cultivated, endless, clean, dazzling, freed from any irritation and resentment."

"So too, Bhikkhus, others may speak to you timely or untimely, true or untrue, gentle or harsh, beneficial or harmful, based on kindness or on bitter hate!If they abuse you verbally, you should train yourselves in this way:"Our minds will remain unaffected, we shall speak no angry words, will dwellfriendly and understanding, with thoughts of kindness and no inward anger!We shall remain friendly and beam goodwill towards that very person, and we shall dwell extending it to the entire universe, mentally overflowing, exalted, measureless and infinite in friendliness, without any trace hostility or ill-will." That is how you should train yourselves. Even if bandits were savagely to cut you up, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, one who harbours hate on that account, would not be one who carried out my teaching. Bhikkhus, you should keep this instruction on this Simile of the Saw constantly in mind...Majjhima Nikaya, Sutta 21

Thus he who both day and nighttakes delight in harmlessnesssharing love with all that lives,finds enmity with none...Samyutta Nikaya. I 208

When one with a mind of lovefeels compassion for the entire worldabove, below and across,unlimited everywhere. Jataka 37

The Bodhisatta once was born as the righteous king Ekaraja. His kingdom was taken by force and he and his son was buried in a pit to the neck... King Ekaraja, however neither resisted, nor bore even slight ill will against theinvaders. Later he remembered this as his ultimate perfection of friendliness. Ekaraja Jataka 303

By it one strives and struggles, thus is it energetic effort.Any advantageous exertion of endeavour is a right effort. By it one works in the right direction, thus is it right effort. It is right, because it eliminates all the ugly evil mentalities.It is effort, because it brings progress of well-being and bliss.Therefore is it called Right Effort. It is a name for Energy...Right Effort achieves these four functions:1: Elimination of already arisen detrimental mental states!2: Prevention of detrimental mental states not yet arisen! 3: Initiation of advantageous mental states not yet arisen! 4: Maintenance of already arisen advantageous mental states! Thus is it fourfold. That is why it is called the 4 right efforts...

The characteristic of patience is acceptance, its function is to endure, and its manifestation is non-opposing tolerance! The cause of patience is understanding how things really are.. The effect of patience is calmtranquility despite presence of intensely stirring provocation..Patience of the will produces forgiving forbearance!Patience of the intellect produces faith, confidence and certainty!Patience of the body produces resolute and tenacious endurance!Internal tolerance of states within oneself is patient endurance...External tolerance of other beings is forbearance and forgiveness...

He who patiently protects himself, protects also all other beings! He who patiently protects all other beings, protects also himself!

Not from speaking much is one called clever.The patient one is free from anger and free from fear,only such steady persisting one, is rightly called clever... Dhammapada 258

Patient tolerance is the highest praxis...Nibbana is the supreme Bliss!So say all the Buddhas.Dhammapada 184

The innocent one, who has done nothing wrong,Who endures abuse, flogging and even imprisonment, Such one, armed with stamina, the great force of tolerance, Such stoic one, who self-possessed can accept, I call a Holy One!Dhammapada 399

One should follow those who are determined, tolerant, and enduring, intelligent, wise, diligent, clever, good-willed and evidently Noble. One shall stick to them as the moon remains in its regular orbit. Dhammapada 208

Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, you should not get angry, but do my bidding: Remain pervading them and all others with a friendly Awareness imbued with an all-embracing good-will, kind, rich, expansive, and immeasurable! Free from hostility, free from any ill will. Always remembering this very Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves. Majjhima Nikaya 21

The five ways of removing irritating annoyance:Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which any irritation can be entirely removed by a Bhikkhu, when it arises in him.What are these five ways?1: Friendliness can be maintained towards an irritating person or state..2: Understanding can be undertaken towards an irritating person or state..3: On-looking Equanimity can be kept towards an irritating person or state.. 4: One can forget and ignore the irritating person, mental or physical state.. 5: Ownership of Kamma of the irritating person can be reflected upon thus: This good person is owner of his actions, inherit the result his actions, is indeed born of his actions and only he is responsible for his actions be they good or bad. This too is how annoyance with the irksome can be instantly removed. These are the five ways of removing annoyance, and by which anyirritation can be entirely removed in a friend, exactly when it arises... Anguttara Nikaya V 161

Buddha to his son Rahula: Develop an Imperturbable Mind like the elements:Rahula, develop a mind like earth, then contacts of arisen like and dislike will not obsess your mind! Rahula, on the earth is dumped both the pure and the impure: excreta, urine, saliva, pus, blood, but the earth does not detest any of those... Even and exactly so make your mind stable like the earth! Rahula, develop a mind like water, then contacts of arisen pleasure and pain will not seize your mind. Rahula with water both the pure and the impure are cleaned... Washed away with water are excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood, yet the water does not despise any of that! Even so make the mind fluid and adaptable like the water! Rahula, develop a mind like fire, then the contacts of any arisen attraction or aversion will neither consume, nor hang on to your mind! Rahula, fire burns both the pure and the impure, burns excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood, yet the fire does not loathe any of that.. In the same manner refine the mind into a tool like an all consuming and purifying fire! Rahula, develop a mind similar to space, then contacts of arisen delight and frustration does neither take hold of, nor remain in your mind. Space does not settle anywhere! Similarly make the mind unsettled and unestablished like open space. When you expand mind like space, contacts of delight and frustration will neither be able to dominate, nor obsess your mind...Majjhima Nikaya 62

Any Buddhist disciple should avoid taking anything from anywhere knowing it belongs to another. He should neither steal, nor swindle, nor incite others to steal or cheat. He should completely avoid all theft, deception and fraud. Sutta Nipata 2.397

The Blessed Buddha once explained:How is the release of mind by infinite mutual joy (Mudita) achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the ultimate goal of mental release by universally mutual, unselfish, altruistic, appreciative & rejoicing joy? Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a mind imbued with infinite mutual joy, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quadrant. As above, so below, across, and everywhere to all beings as for himself, he dwells pervading the entire cosmos with a mind fully saturated withunlimited mutual joy, immense, exalted, measureless, without hostility, without any enmity, without any trace of ill will, of jealousy or of envy! Thus prepared and mentally quite expanded, he then develops: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless mutual joy.2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such mutual joy.3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite mutual joy.4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute mutual joy.5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with noble mutual joy.6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with mutual joy.7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless mutual joy.Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release...

If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing repulsion by any attractive & tempting object, then he can dwell experiencing repulsiveness therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in any disgusting and repulsive object, then he experiences pleasing beauty in whatever disgusting & ugly thing! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive & the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he experiences equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending! When meditating hecan completely transcend the realm of infinitude of space, only aware that consciousness is infinite, he can enter and dwell in the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness.. I tell you Bhikkhus for a quite wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release, the mental release by infinite, altruistic and mutual joy has the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness as its culmination!

Comments: Are you Discontent? Here is Why!Mutual joy is the proximate cause of contentment. Consequentially: Lack of mutual joy produces frustrated discontent!Mutual joy also eliminates jealousy and envy! Absence of mutual joytherefore induces the acid like mental pain called envy and jealousy!

Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...

The Buddha indeed pointed out Gratitude as an important mental quality:These two people are hard to find in the world. Which two? The one who is first to do a kindness, and the one who is grateful and thankful for a kindness done.Anguttara Nikaya 2.118

I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two? Your mother & father. Even if you were to carry your mother on one shoulder & your father on the other shoulder for 100 years, & were to look after them by anointing, massaging, bathing, & rubbing their limbs, and they were to defecate and urinate right there on your shoulders, you would not thereby repay your parents. Even if you were to establish your mother & father in absolute sovereignty over this great earth, abounding in the seven treasures, you would not in that way repay your parents!Why is that? Mothers and fathers do much for their children. They care for them, they nourish them for long, and they introduce them to this world. But anyone who rouses his unbelieving mother & father, settles & establishes them in faith; rouses his immoral mother & father, establishes them in virtue; rouses his stingy mother & father, settles & establishes them in generosity; rouses his unwise mother & father, settles & establishes them on a new levelof understanding: It is in this way that one truly repays one's mother's and father's many longstanding services.Anguttara Nikaya 2.32

Mother & father, compassionate to their family, are called Brahma, first teachers, honour them with food & drink, clothing & bedding, and anointing, bathing, washing their feet. Performing these services to their parents, the wise are praised right here and after death rejoice in heaven. Itivuttaka 106

If this is what you think of me: The Blessed One, is sympathetic, is seeking our well-being, teaches us thisDhamma out of sympathy, then you should train yourself in being in harmony, cordial, and without conflict and train in yourselves cultivation of all the 37 best mental qualities: The 4_Foundations_of_Awareness, the 4 right efforts, the 4_Feet_of_Force, the 5 Abilities, 5 powers, the 7 Links to Awakening, & the Noble_8-Fold_Way. Majjhima Nikaya 103A Tathagata is worshipped, honoured, respected, thanked & shown gratitude by any follower, who keeps practicing the Dhamma in accordance with trueDhamma, who keeps practicing masterfully, who lives in and by the Dhamma!Digha Nikaya 16

We will undertake & practice those qualities that makes one a contemplative, so that all those who helped us by services of robes, alms-food, lodging, and medicines will bring them great fruit and great future reward. Majjhima Nikaya 39

Comments:In Pali, the word for gratitude = kataññu literally means to have a sense of what was done for one in the past even when long ago. Remembering all help! A network of kindness and gratitude is what sustains whatever goodness there is and ever will be in this - otherwise destitute & impoverished - world!

The Ancient Elders explained:All past constructions & all past formations, whether mental or material have dissolved, and they continue to break up into any future, just as they do now! Clearly observing the inevitable impermanence of all the present constructions,one can infer those past & future to be the same: All formations will disappear!Like dew-drops, when the morning sun comes up. All Aggregates cease & nothing else really exists. Breakup of these 5 clusters of clinging is known as death...One should watch and reflect upon their destruction carefully, just as one who with a diamond drills a hole through a jewel. Since:

One who regards all phenomena:As lasting as a bursting bubble;As illusive as a mirage;One regarding all worldly life exactly so, is forever unseen even by the King of Death!Dhammapada 170

Seeing the breakup of all phenomena therefore makes one approach Nibbana with the acute imperative urgency & efficacy of one with a burning turban...Vism 645

The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus and Friends: There are these four infinite mental states:The Bhikkhu pervades all beings with all-embracing friendliness...The Bhikkhu encompass all creatures with universal & endless pity...The Bhikkhu permeates all individuals with infinite and mutual joy...The Bhikkhu suffuses all living mortals with unlimited equanimity...First in one direction, then in the 2nd, then the 3rd, & finally the 4th, above, below, all around, in every location, unifying himself with all beings, he pervades the entire universe with a kind and all-embracing friendliness, with an all-encircling compassion & pity, with an all-enveloping mutual and altruistic joy, and with an all-encompassing imperturbable equanimity, fullyutilizing a refined mind, made great, vast, profound, infinite, immeasurable,released from all hate, anger, irritation, opposition and stubbornness...Source: DN 33

Because of hate, overwhelmed and obsessed by hate, one lives whiledoing evil deeds, speaking wrong words, and thinking bad thoughts... Thus one neither really understands one's own welfare, nor the welfare of others, nor the welfare of both... If, however, this hate is overcome and subdued, then one lives while doing good deeds, speaking kind words, and thinking advantageous thoughts... Therefore one really knows, what is one's own welfare, for the welfare of others, & for the welfare of both one self & others...Source: AN 3:55